A MISSING cat has brought together internet baby mum Judith Kilshaw and a woman who looks likely to become a minor celebrity herself.

A MISSING cat has brought together internet baby mum Judith Kilshaw and a woman who looks likely to become a minor celebrity herself.

Ronnie Browse, 43, of Ellesmere Port will be eternally grateful to Mrs Kilshaw who found her &#xA3;1,000 Siamese show cat Princess several miles away at her Chester home.

Mrs Kilshaw, made famous after she and husband Alan bought twins over the internet, rang the owner on reading about Princess' disappearance in the Chronicle.

But Mrs Browse, who has appeared on The Real Holiday Show and whose family has just filmed a docu-soap, was in for a shock because the cat was without its tail.

Mrs Browse, of Conway Court, who paid a &#xA3;50 reward, said: 'I suspect she could have travelled in a bin wagon because she went missing on a Monday when the bins get emptied. She was injured badly and past dishevelled when Judith took her in. She was also found in the bottom of a bin.'

Mrs Browse, who is married to Phil with seven children, said her daughter Faye, 18, was closest to Princess. She said the saga of the missing moggie had been captured on camera by a BBC film crew making a series called House Exchange, in which two families from contrasting backgrounds swap lives for a week.

'When Judith rang, it must have been the fourth time we had been approached by someone with a Siamese cat,' said Mrs Browse, who explained that Faye had been 'in bits' as each glimmer of hope had been dashed.

'Princess is only one year-old. She had not been in a show and not likely to now,' she said. 'We bred her ourselves and she is registered as a breeding queen.'

The Browse family, who live on the Stanney Grange council estate, along with their five cats, three dogs, two rats, three hens and three ducks, swapped lives with a family from Solihull who live in a &#xA3;5m mansion and have 400 acres of grounds.

'They were crying that they were hard up because they were down to their last &#xA3;1m! We own our own house on a council estate and they came and lived here. To put it nicely, they weren't too gracious.'

Mrs Kilshaw, who has five cats and a lurcher at her Westminster Park home, said a neighbour brought Princess to her, complaining that one of her cats had been rooting through her bin.

Mrs Kilshaw, who lives in Rushfield Road, took the cat in and arranged for her to go straight to the vets on seeing the damaged tail which had to be amputated.

'It's a cat with a tale to tell but no tail to wag,' she said. 'It was here for two weeks and missing for three weeks so there is a week missing somewhere along the line. My boys will miss her.'

* BBC1's House Exchange is week-long pilot series starting on June 23 with a 45-minute show broadcast each day.